Typographic numbering-machine.



PATENTED MAY 10, 1904.

E. G. BATES. TYPOGRAPHIO NUMBERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 11110.9, 1903,

N0 MODEL.

w'lrumu. We M, M 48 4am UNITED STATES fatented May 10, 1964.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN G. BATES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE BATES MACHINECOMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPOGRAPHIC NUMBEFHNG-IVIAGHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,656, dated May 10,1904.

Application filed December 9,1903. Serial No. 184,442. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern.-

Beitknown that I, EDWIN G. BATES, a resident of New York, in the countyand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Typographic Numbering- Machines; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itpertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates more especially to automatic numbering-machinesof the character adapted to be set in a form of type, with surroundingtype-matter, on a printing-cylinder or other bed. Some features of thein? vention are, however, equally applicable to other forms ofnumbering-machines for hand use or. otherwise.

The'main object of theinvention is to provide improved features ofconstruction, simplifying and increasing efficiency of the machines.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front side View of themachine with the front side plate removed. Fig. 2 is an end View lookingat the right end of the machine, the side plates being in position. Fig.3 shows side and end views of a removable printingblock. Fig. iis a sideview of a washer. Fig. 5 is a side view of the plunger detached. Fig. 6is a sectional view on line 6 6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 shows side and endviews of a side plate. Fig. 8 shows an end view of a different form ofside plate. Fig. 9 is a side view of the drop-wheel; and Fig. 10 is adetail View, on asmaller scale than the other figures, showing anumbering-machine secured by dove connection to a suitable body, as aprintingcylinder.

Numeral 1 indicates the main body of the frame of the machine, whichsupports the shaft 2 for the number-wheels 3,each of which has attachedto it a propelling-ratchet 4:.

5 indicates the stepped pawl, which in this case has a pawl for eachnumber-wheel except the last one, 3, at the right, which may be turnedwhen needed by the hand or by any suitable tool. The number ofprintingwheels may be varied and more or less of them may be operated bythe stepped pawls. Part 6 is a swinging frame carrying the stepped pawlsand having arms 7 and 8, which have bearings and swing 011 the shaft 2.Arm 8 has gear-teeth 9, adapted to be engaged by teeth 10 on an armdepending from plunger 11. As thus far described the construction is notnew.

I improve the plunger by providing in it a groove or recess 12 withoverhanging edges preferably of simple dovetail form and preferablyextending transversely to the length of the head of the plunger, inwhich groove is fitted a removable type-block 13, having a cipher orother printing character 14 on its face, which when the plunger isdepressed by the act of printing in the usual way the face of said blockmoves downward to the printing-plane of the wheels 3. Block 13 alsoserves to increase the thickness of the plun: ger, whereby the latterwill be given its full movement when depressed in printing, allowing themain body of the plunger to be thinwhich terminates at the bottom of thegroove 12 and which has in this end a socket 17, in

" which is a polished-steel or other body hav ing a rounded. partextending into the groove 12, preferablya polished-steel ball 18,pressed by a spring, so as to project above the bottom of groove 12.

When block 13 is inserted, the body 18 will be depressed and the blockwill enter until the ball is pressed into groove 15. The block can thenbe removed only by a stronger pressure. The ball is held in its socketby the extension over its surface above its center of the metal of thesocketed pin 16 at 20. Preferably said pin is pressed into atightfitting smooth hole in the plunger-head; but this mode of securingit is not essential. Said pin extends into spring 21, which occupies asocket in body 1, as common. The plungerhead also has two legs 22,notched to receive the securing-staple 23, this being an old feature.

On each of the open sides of frame 1 is placed a metal side plate 24,preferably tapering in thickness, as shown, whereby the outer faces willbe in radial planes when the machine is mounted on a cylindrical form.These plates may, if desired, be reversed, whereby the machine will bemade thicker at the bottom than at the top, in which case the machinemay be held in place in the form by being entered in a dovetail groove.Another way is to form a dovetail connection between a supportingcylinder or body by having a suitable groove 24: in said body and byextending the side plates of the numbering-machine to form tapering ends2 t which fit into said dovetail groove on the supporting-body. In Fig.the dotted lines 1 denote the ends of the numbering-machine and thetriangular parts formed by said dotted lines the bevel sides, and thebase-lines are the extension of the side plates.

The side plates are secured by overhanging or dovetail projections 25,one at each end, which fit corresponding grooves in the frame 1.Projections 25 are at the longitudinal center of the plates, whereby theplates may be reversed, as above described.

Part 26 is a washer on shaft 2 between the ratchet of the first Wheel 3and arm 7 and having notch 27 adapted to receive and support in theprinting-plane the inner end 28 of body 29, extending over theunit-wheel ratchet, secured to the frame by one or more screws 30 andhaving any desired printing character on it. Body 29 is shownextendinginto a groove 31 of the frame; but this is not essential. The

' washer is held from rotation by a pin 32 or one wheel, 3, is thusdepressible or movable. The shaft 2, where it carries the depressiblewheel 3 has its circular periphery cut away at 38, leaving an undercuttooth 34:, which in the position shown supports the wheel in printingposition, but which can be and normally is moved into and engaged withthe wall of a side opening 35 in the wheel, holding the wheel back untilpurposely released.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In anumbering-machine,number-wheels, means for advancing the wheelsincluding a plunger moved by the act of printing, a groove in theplunger, ablock in said groove, aspring pressed engaging and holdingdevice for said block, and a pin supported in the plunger back of thegroove, said pin having a socket for said holding device and its spring.

2. In a numbering-machine, number-wheels means for advancing the wheelsincluding a plunger moved by the act of printing, a groove in theplunger, a block in said groove, a springpressed steel ball forming anengaging and holding device for said block, and a socketed bodyconnected to the plunger back of said groove and carrying said ball andits spring.

3. In a numbering-machine, a plunger having a dovetail groove, a blockfitting the same, said block having a depression in its bottom, a steelball projecting into the dovetail groove, and a spring behind saidballin a socket in the plunger, said socket being in the end of a pin in anopening in the head of the plunger.

4. In a numbering-machinaa plunger having a head with a dovetail groovetherein and having legs 22, a pin 16, a spring in a socket of themachine-frame for moving the plunger outward, said spring surroundingsaid pin 16, a printing-block in the groove, a ball bearing against theblock and a spring back of the ball.

5. A plunger having a removable printingblock, a spring-pressed holdingdevice for the block, a body carried by the plunger and having a socketcarrying the holding device and its spring.

6. In a numbering-machine, the frame, the shaft therein, the wheels onsaid shaft, the notched washer also on said shaft back of the first orunit wheel, a body 29 secured to the frame and extending into the notchof the washer, body 29 having at the end adjacent the unit-wheel aprinting character.

7. In a numbering machine, the frame, the shaft therein, the wheels onsaid shaft, the notched washer also on said shaft back of the first orunit wheel, a body 29 secured to the frame and extending into the notchof the washer, body 29 having at the end adjacent the unit-wheel aprinting character, and means to prevent rotation of the washer.

8. The numbering-machine frame, tapering side plates, a supporting-bodyfor said frame and its side plates extending longitudinally of theframe, and the supporting-body having means to engage the taperingsides.

9. The numbering-machine frame, and side plates tapering in thicknessand reversible as described.

10. The numbering-machine frame with dovetail grooves, side plates, anddovetail projections on the plates, the plates tapering in thickness andreversible as described.

11. In anumbering-machinethe side plates, the dovetail projections atthe ends thereof, and parts grooved lengthwise of the side plates whenthey are in position of use to receive and hold said projections andplates.

12. Ashaft, a number-Wheel havinga shaftopening, the shaft being cutaway where said wheel stands to form an undercut supporting and holdingtooth 34 and to permit backward ing Witnesses.

EDW1N G. BATES. WVitnesses HENRY O. WARE, B. B. CONRAD.

